Sentence examples for acted as hostess from inspiring English sources

For five years she acted as hostess to a brother who was given command of a ship on the Thames which was used as a reformatory training establishment for young 1st offenders.

The daughter of an Irish army officer and his English wife, Gonne made her debut in St . Petersburgand later acted as hostess for her father when he was assistant adjutant general in Dublin.

At court, while her father was between marriages and without a consort, Mary acted as hostess.

With her position, Harriet acted as hostess to Parisian society, writing detailed accounts that were later published.

While the wives of presidents always acted as hostesses for their husbands and sometimes as with Dolley Madison took on more public roles, the term didn't appear in print until 1860, when a newspaper used it to refer to Harriet Lane, who served as first lady to the only bachelor president, James Buchanan.

And Laura Bush did away with a tribute to her as first lady and will instead act as hostess of a celebration of American authors.

Debra Messing, the star of the hit television comedy "Will and Grace," will act as hostess for the event, which will feature live performances by Pink, David Bowie, Santana with Michelle Branch, and the cast of "Hairspray" performing "You Can't Stop the Beat," for the show's finale.

Cleveland entered the White House as a bachelor, and his sister Rose Cleveland joined him, to act as hostess for the first two years of his administration.

In reality, these turn out to be dancers in backless dresses and elaborate headgear who act as hostesses, and while I'm enjoying my New York strip steak at the bar, one of them comes over – a vision of shimmering red plumes – and asks how I'm doing.

A khaki-clad woman with a pistol strapped to her thigh acted as air hostess.

Isabel Law lived at 11 Downing Street with her widowed father, for whom she acted as political hostess.